Sangdoo - Let's Go To School Summary

What though life conspire to cheat you, Do not sorrow or complain. For love is still there.

In 2003 , there is a 27 year old man living in the corner of Seoul. He is a gigolo by profession. His job is to seduce a rich woman, dance with her and swindle the woman out of her money. Although he's not married, he has a 7-year-old daughter. He is a single father so to speak. His daughter spends two thirds of a year in the hospital. After using the money he's made to pay the hospital bills, all he can have for meals is instant noodles. He's a high school dropout. He beat up a man to unconscious (although he did come out of the coma afterwards) when he was going to high school and he's been to the juvenile reformatory because of that incident. He's an ex-convict so to speak. He lost his parents in a motor accident and his gigolo uncle raised him. At 10, his uncle abandoned him and he was adopted to a rich family.

Eunhwan, the girl he met like destiny on the day he was abandoned by his uncle, was the whole world to him. Just like the saying that goes every cloud has a silver lining, there was once a time when the sun threw light on his life. He was adopted as the only son of a rich family when he was in the 5th grade of elementary school, and he could eat or do whatever he wanted, spending time truly like a dream. Those dreamy days were exactly 8 years. 8 years later, when he turned 17, he was disowned and abandoned again. What kind of a life is this? If it had happened to someone with moderately weak will, one would have taken the pills a couple of times or jump off from a bridge on the river a handful of times, but he was always full of hope. He puts on a silly smile all the time like a simpleton, knows about a hundred newest jokes, and when he meets an acquaintance, he greets, his voice delightful and loud for the whole world to hear, "Hi! Isn't this a lovely weather?" I repeat, he is never an insane man. He power that keeps him is love. To be more elaborate, it is the woman called 'Chae Eunhwan,' who lived in his heart like a debris all his life to rule his life and his daughter 'Cha Bori.' Everytime he wants to swallow a handful of pills, everytime he feels like jumping off the bridge, the power of love grabs his hands and holds onto his feet.

This drama is a story about his love.

He and Chae Eunhwan loved each other for 15 years. But they never held each other to the warmth of their hearts or tell each other of their love. They always crossed each other. The prejudice and hypocrisy of the world always deceived them and tortured them. While other lovers communicated each other with skinship and language of love, they wasted their time with saying and doing things they don't mean at all like provoking a quarrel, ignoring, irritating each other by going out with others and hurting each other's feelings with the most irritating words. But they never sorrowed, complained, or despaired.

They believe in love. In this sad world where they believe money than love, Sangdu says gaily. There is love! Love is the only hope!

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